Our Symposium will feature speaker panels addressing the different stages of the research data life cycle, with representatives from Columbia faculty, learned societies, research institutions, funders, and publishers coming together to examine the implementation stages, available technologies and associated challenges and barriers for managing, preserving and accessing research data. Attendees will leave armed with valuable information to engage their respective organizational stakeholders to initiate and continue long-term research and data management efforts.

James Neal, University Librarian at Columbia, commented: “Columbia Libraries/Information Services are honored to host this symposium on the challenges of managing the life cycle of research data across the arenas of creation to use to preservation. The speakers reflect the mandate for a new radical collaboration among researcher, funder, publisher, information professional and technologist.”

David Marques, Senior Vice President Research Data Services at Elsevier, added: “The potential opportunities presented by the nature of digital research data management are both extraordinary and challenging. Elsevier is proud to collaborate with Columbia to support an event that will lead the discussion and enhance the knowledge of stakeholders in the research community.”

Space for the Symposium is limited. To register, please RSVP on the Symposium website here.

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IDSE at Columbia University strives to be the single world-leading institution in research and education in the theory and practice of the emerging field of data science broadly defined. Equally important in this mission is supporting and encouraging entrepreneurial ventures emerging from the research IDSE conducts. To accomplish this goal, the Institute seeks to forge closer relationships between faculty already at the University, to hire new faculty, to attract interdisciplinary graduate students interested in problems relating to big data, and to build strong and mutually beneficial relationships with industry partners. The Institute seeks to attract external funding from both federal and industrial sources to support is research and educational mission.

CDRS serves the digital research and scholarly communications needs of the faculty, students, and staff of Columbia University and its affiliates. Our mission is to increase the utility and impact of research produced at Columbia by creating, adapting, implementing, supporting, and sustaining innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, data curation, and preservation. In pursuit of that mission, we also engage in extensive outreach, education, and advocacy to ensure that the scholarly work produced at Columbia University has a global reach and accelerates the pace of research across disciplines. CDRS, led byRebecca Kennison, is one of six entities that comprise the Digital Programs and Technology Services branch ofColumbia University Libraries/Information Services. The Center was created in July 2007 to address the ongoing evolution of researchers’ and scholars’ needs as new technologies, policies, and systems of knowledge support arise.

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, includingThe Lancet andCell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions includeScienceDirect,Scopus,Reaxys,ClinicalKey and Mosby’s Nursing Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and theSciVal suite andMEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively. A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part ofReed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange)